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Show Work begins on overhaul of Geneva furnace Final stage in a three-year program to modernize and enlarge en-large blast furnaces at U. S. Steel's Geneva Works will start here this weekend when crews take the wind off No. 1 furnace last of three big ironmakers to receive major overahul. The four-month furnace rebuild re-build will boost ironmaking capacity by adding 12 feet to the unit's height and 18 inches to the hearth diameter. The furnace already is more than 200 feet high nearly as tall as a 20-story building. Three stoves that supply preheated air to the furnace were enlarged and relined last fall increasing their over-all height by some 40 feit to a new elevation of about 169 feet above ground level, officials said. Local TJ. S. Steel ehgrincers estimate that enough refrii tory bricks will go into relin-ing relin-ing furnace and stoves to reach end-to-end across the width of Utah a distance of nearly 300 miles. |